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"Aggression only moves in one direction - it creates more aggression."
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"Forgiveness and Blame share an apartment, but not for long, because Blame can't live with Forgiveness, and Forgiveness can't live with Blame."
"How we traverse the space between us when conflict arises has a profound effect on the health and longevity of our relationships."
"Ender didn't like fighting. He didn't like Peter's kind, the strong against the weak, and he didn't like his own kind either, the smart against the stupid."
"So the whole war is because we can't talk to each other."
"Your enemy is never a villain in his own eyes. Keep this in mind; it may offer a way to make him your friend. If not, you can kill him without hate - and quickly."
"You cannot become a peacemaker without communication. Silence is a passive aggressive grenade thrown by insecure people that want war, but they don't want the accountability of starting it."
"Percy muttered. 'I want to drown her.' 'Be patient, water boy.' 'Don't call me water boy."
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"Destroying is a necessary function in life. Everything has its season, and all things eventually lose their effectiveness and die."
"I think we have to notice that the business processes we use right now for thinking and planning and budgeting and strategy are all delivered on very tight agendas."
"I believe that the capacity that any organisation needs is for leadership to appear anywhere it is needed, when it is needed."
"Organisations are now confronted with two sources of change: the traditional type that is initiated and managed; and external changes over which no one has control."
"I've wanted to see beyond the Western, mechanical view of the world and see what else might appear when the lens was changed."
"Our willingness to acknowledge that we only see half the picture creates the conditions that make us more attractive to others. The more sincerely we acknowledge our need for their different insights and perspectives, the more they will be magnetized to join us."
"Circles create soothing space, where even reticent people can realize that their voice is welcome."
"Listening is such a simple act. It requires us to be present, and that takes practice, but we don't have to do anything else. We don't have to advise, or coach, or sound wise. We just have to be willing to sit there and listen."
"Yet we act as if simple cause and effect is at work. We push to find the one simple reason things have gone wrong. We look for the one action, or the one person, that created this mess. As soon as we find someone to blame, we act as if we've solved the problem."
"Everyone in a complex system has a slightly different interpretation. The more interpretations we gather, the easier it becomes to gain a sense of the whole."
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